As part of the MIDIS ARCHI conference series, you are cordially invited by the Interior Architecture department of HEAD – Geneva to attend the lectures by Sam Chermayeff and Willem de Haan, which will take place on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, from 5:3 pm to 5:10pm, and from 5:10pm to 5:40pm.

Sam Chermayeff is an architect, designer and teacher undertaking projects worldwide. Trained in architecture at the University of Texas at Austin and the Architectural Association, London, Sam is a founding partner and director in the architecture firm June 14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff and Sam Chermayeff Office. With offices in New York and Berlin, the studios work on a wide range of design driven projects ranging from larger multiunit residential buildings in Berlin, several small houses in New York and furniture all over.

Willem De Haan challenges and undermines the socially conditioned and politically determined rules of everyday locations. By adding artificial elements in a convincing yet uncanny manner his works exert direct influence on daily situations. These suggestive sculptural interventions reference the influence of props on fictional scenarios in film and theatre.